This succinct overview of key events in early American history comes with 12 removable facsimile documents, including a Revolutionary War map, George Washington's handwritten inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, and letters by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. Spanning the French and Indian Wars and the Jacksonian era, this book contains pithy entries bolstered by capsule biographies of the founding fathers, along with such figures as Charles Cornwallis, Friedrich von Steuben, Meriwether Lewis, Chief Tecumseh, and Francis Scott Key. Here too are features on the Liberty Bell, colonial artillery, Valley Forge, the Barbary Pirates, and other related topics. Dozens of color reproductions of artwork, documents, artifacts, and maps round out this interactive historical experience.